A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
My close-walled soul has never known
That innermost darkness, dazzling sight,
Like the blind point, whence the visions spring
In the core of the gazer’s chrysolite…
The mystic darkness that laps God’s throne
In a splendour beyond imagining,
So passing bright.
But the many twisted darknesses
That range the city to and fro,
In aimless subtlety pass and part
And ebb and glutinously flow;
Darkness of lust and avarice,
Of the crippled body and the crooked heart…
These darknesses I know.

A few random poems:
- A November Note poem – Alfred Austin
 - The May-Tree by William Barnes
 - Nigra Sum poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Egotist poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Venetian Glass poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Владимир Британишский – Континенты
 - doughnuts for sale by Raj Arumugam
 - Ballade Of Truisms by William Ernest Henley
 - Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
 - if_i_were_king.html
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Я музыкальным чувством обладаю
 - Sleep
 - The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
 - The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
 - At Shelley’s House At Lerici poem – Alfred Austin
 
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Коломенское
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
 
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
	
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.